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Thirty Meters From the Sea: A Tech Blogger's 8.7-Million-Yuan Homestay Bet

Thirty Meters From the Sea: A Tech Blogger's 8.7-Million-Yuan Homestay Bet

Technology blogger Li Jieling bought his first home — a Shenzhen house thirty meters from the sea — at a judicial auction for 8.7 million yuan, and plans to run it as a guesthouse. His friend's public warning about salt air turned the purchase into a national argument about property, discounts and hustle.

Young Chinese Are 'Cutting Off Kin' — and Experts Are Calling It Normal

A trending debate about young people dropping contact with aunts, uncles and cousins has drawn an unexpected verdict from sociologists: the 'severing of kinship' is a normal response to urbanization, the one-child generation and relatives who judge more than they help.

Pang Dong Lai, China's Cult Supermarket, Posts 19.5 Billion Yuan in Eight Months

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Pang Dong Lai, China's Cult Supermarket, Posts 19.5 Billion Yuan in Eight Months

Yu Donglai, founder of the supermarket chain Pang Dong Lai, published his company's sales dashboard on Weibo: 19.5 billion yuan in eight months, up 27 percent. In a cautious consumer economy, China is reading it as a verdict on how business could be done.

'Jiao Feng,' a twenty-year cross-strait espionage thriller created under the leadership of the Ministry of State Security, premieres on CCTV-8 on September 6. Early screenings suggest a candor the genre has never had — and the author is the state's own spy-catcher.

China's Spy Agency Co-Produces Its Own Prime-Time Drama, 'Jiao Feng'

1 Sep 2026

News & Politics

China Ends a 32-Year Tax Break on Foreign Investors' Dividends

1 Sep 2026

News & Politics

Two Years After a Chinese Woman Was Beaten Unconscious and Thrown Off a Cliff, Her Family Waits for a Verdict

1 Sep 2026

A recommendation glitch served China's biggest short-video app a stream of health tips and AI dramas, then the platform crashed outright — a rare public look at what happens when the algorithm that knows you briefly stops.

Douyin Users Say Their Feeds Suddenly Turned Into a 'Middle-Aged Channel'

1 Sep 2026

One of Taobao's best-known women's-wear shops — 20 million followers, a 4.5 rating, 40,000 sales a month — shut down without warning, and its fans are asking how a store that big could be so fragile.

Fashion & Beauty

Miss Coco, a Taobao Shop With 20 Million Followers, Closed Overnight

1 Sep 2026

Young Chinese Couples Are Swapping Wedding Gold Jewellery for Gold Bars

1 Sep 2026

As pupils nationwide returned to school, Shenzhen's uniform system went viral again: one design for the whole city, sold in supermarkets for a few dozen yuan, no school in the middle — and the rest of China asking why it can't copy the model.

Why China Envies Shenzhen's Supermarket School Uniforms

1 Sep 2026

Employees at Unitree, China's first listed humanoid-robot maker, describe a culture of 100-yuan expense approvals and punishment-only incentives — an inside look at the company behind the country's robot mania, two weeks after its blockbuster IPO.

Unitree Employees Say the Reward System Is 'Only Punishment, Almost No Reward'

1 Sep 2026

News & Politics

Solar Overtakes Coal as China's Largest Power Source for the First Time

1 Sep 2026

Huang Lei has confirmed he will not return to Back to Field, the farmhouse slow-living show that ran for seven years and created a whole Chinese television genre. His farewell — 'what never changes is called forever; what has ended is forever' — capped a weekend of fan mourning for unhurried television.

After Seven Seasons, Back to Field Signs Off as Its Host Chooses the Theatre

1 Sep 2026

China's top tennis player beat the teenage qualifier Lutkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the US Open first round, ending a four-match Grand Slam losing streak and taking her first major main-draw win since the 2025 French Open. She revealed afterwards she had been ill enough to feel dizzy on court.

Zheng Qinwen Fights Past a 16-Year-Old for Her First Grand Slam Win in Over a Year

1 Sep 2026

China's internet regulator has retroactively tagged more than 80,000 posts with red 'rumor' labels across Weibo, Douyin, Baidu and nine other platforms, part of a campaign that rewrites how misinformation is policed: old falsehoods stay online, but stamped.

News & Politics

China Puts Rumor Labels on 80,000 Old Posts Across a Dozen Platforms

1 Sep 2026

On August 31, seven ministries issued 20 measures meant to lift China's goods consumption to about 60 trillion yuan a year by 2030. The same weekend, the top trending thread was a celebration of Generation Z's frugality — and the collision between the state's spending goals and young people's saving instincts is the story of China's economy right now.

News & Politics

Beijing Unveils Consumption Push as China's Gen Z Showcases Its Thrift

1 Sep 2026

Huawei, Honor and Xiaomi raised official prices across their smartphone lineups on September 1, pushing the base Mate 80 up 800 yuan in a day. The increases cap a year in which the same phone has quietly become 20 percent more expensive — and analysts say the era of ever-cheaper Chinese phones is over for now.

Huawei, Xiaomi and Honor Raise Phone Prices as Chip and Memory Costs Bite

1 Sep 2026

Tim Cook spent 15 years running Apple and one final midnight post saying goodbye on Chinese social media. From September 1, hardware engineering chief John Ternus is chief executive — and China's tech commentariat, which watched Apple's supply chain grow up alongside Cook, is reading the handover as the end of an operations era.

Tim Cook Hands Apple's Top Job to Hardware Chief John Ternus After 15 Years

1 Sep 2026

Goodbye Zihan and Zixuan: China's Newest Pupils Are Getting Names From the Classics

31 Aug 2026

'Major Crimes Unit Six,' the police procedural that defined Chinese prime-time drama in the 2000s, returned on Monday as a prequel on Beijing TV — and the instant verdict on its recast heroine, the pioneering female detective Ji Jie, was a trending cry of 'give us back Ji Jie.' The new version is also a record-breaking short-form drama, which is its own story about where Chinese TV is going.

A Classic Chinese Cop Drama Returns as a Prequel, and Fans Are Demanding the Original Ji Jie Back

31 Aug 2026